The sad and down right sickening story of Auburn softball under Myers.

If you've caught a bit of one of our conversations--may have only been one or two mentions--when we were talking about what was going on down on "The Plains."

The author references in a tweet that he started this story a year ago. I wondered immediately why it wasn't on the national stage when it was happening and being widely discussed on various fan sites. Michigan State?

This is a long read. Quite an in depth piece.

She understands this, and yet she still holds fast not only to the promise of joy but to the promises Clint Myers made to her about greatness as a way of life and making the world a better place one at-bat at a time. "People call it a cult," she says. "But it was a cult everyone wished they could join. It only became a cult when it became a catastrophe." And so when she heads out to coach her team of 8-year-olds and says, "I'm going to coach them just like Coach," I fear both for her and for them. I fear for her because even after all she's been through she can still say that the girls on her team want to be her, and I fear for them because if she has succeeded in sharing her dream, then they already are. For the past two hours she has told me a story about softball, but their story is just beginning, and I can only pray that it ends differently from hers and that they learn the secret within the game without having to endure what she did-the secrets within the game.

There really are none, Shane. This is a story with multiple chapters where each chapter could be a book in itself. Some of these chapters will leave you shaking your head in disbelief; in anger in some situations simple because it's an adult and a young college lady.

Take it in bits and pieces if you don't have the time to sit down and read through it...even if it is just skimming the article.

I'm still left wondering how school administrators can come in to a locker room and demand all the players turn over their cell phones so the story doesn't get out. And that's just one sordid detail.

Looks like a coach had a relationship with a player. Sad but good grief they could have just said that.

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Three. One he got pregnant. He was suspended after it came out the first time and then reinstated a week later. Two more ladies down...and they finally ban him from campus.

When all of this came to a head in the locker room their admin (Title iX director, Assistant AD's) literally confiscated all their phones. Ask yourself why?

This story has led to three Asst. AD's being fired as well as the lady in charge of their Title IX program: a total of six were fired yesterday.

Why? Because it came out in the news.

I was forwarded this post from one of the AU mods last night:

Jay G. Tate
IT'S A TRAP!
Staff
Talking just now with a friend on the INSIDE ... everyone whose professional life brought them within earshot of softball is now retired or canned. Every last one of them*. That was a big, big deal. It ultimately brought down that entire regime.

It's a pathetic story and yet it pales in comparison to what USC swept under the rug for almost 3 decades. 10,000 patients ALL seen by the same male gynecologist. He was anywhere from unprofessional to sexually abusive. An office nurse finally reported him to a rape hotline because the school wasn't doing anything to get rid of him. We finally paid him to leave last July and former President Nikias claims he knew nothing of it until October. Facking liar. They set up a hotline for victims to report and within 10 days, there were over 400 claims.

He finally stepped down but the settlement that comes out of this will make Michigan State look like nothing. Gloria Allred is just one of 3 attorneys to have filed a class actions. One of the others is the guy who won the case against Michigan State.